The abbreviation LM or lm may refer to:

Places

County Leitrim County Leitrim ( ; gle, Contae Liatroma) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Connacht and is part of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the village of Leitrim. Leitrim County Council is the local authority for the ...

, Ireland (vehicle plate code LM) * Le Mans, a place in France *

Limburg-Weilburg Limburg-Weilburg is a Kreis (district) in the west of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Lahn-Dill, Hochtaunuskreis, Rheingau-Taunus, Rhein-Lahn, Westerwaldkreis. History *1867 the ''Oberlahnkreis'', capital Weilburg was created *1886 the ...

, Germany (vehicle plate code LM) *

Liptovský Mikuláš Liptovský Mikuláš (; until 1952 ''Liptovský Svätý Mikuláš'', german: Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus; hu, Liptószentmiklós) is a town in northern Slovakia, on the Váh River, about from Bratislava. It lies in the Liptov region, in Liptov Bas ...

, Slovakia (vehicle plate code LM) *

Lourenço Marques Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a population of 1,088 ...

, Pearl of the Indian Ocean, Mozambique * Lower Mainland, a region in British Columbia, Canada

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Little Mix, a British four-piece girl group * ''LM'' (magazine), a defunct British computer game magazine * ''

Living Marxism ''Living Marxism'' was a British magazine originally launched in 1988 as the journal of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Rebranded as ''LM'' in 1992, it ceased publication in March 2000 following a successful libel lawsuit brought by ...

'' magazine, published under the name ''LM'' between 1997 and 2000 * Long metre or Long Measure, a hymn-metre with four lines of 8 syllables

Brands and enterprises

* L&M, a brand of cigarettes *

Ledgewood Mall The Shops at Ledgewood Commons is a shopping plaza in Ledgewood, New Jersey, United States. Its anchors are Ashley Furniture HomeStores, Marshalls, Walmart, and Burlington. It is an outdoor shopping plaza with a gross leasable area of . From the ...

, a shopping mall in New Jersey *

Legg Mason Legg Mason was an American investment management and asset management firm headquartered in Baltimore, founded in 1899 and acquired by Franklin Templeton Investments as of July 2020. As of December 31, 2019, the company had $730.8 billion in as ...

, a U.S. investment management firm; NYSE ticker symbol * Lockheed Martin, a U.S. defense contractor

In transportation

ALM Antillean Airlines ALM Antillean Airlines ( nl, Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij) was the main airline of the Netherlands Antilles between its foundation in 1964 and its shut-down in 2001, operating out of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. History ALM Antil ...

, a Netherlands Antillean airline; IATA airline designator code * Lamborghini Militaria, a series of light trucks, the Rambo Lambos *

Lexus LM The is a minivan produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota since 2002. It is available as a seven or eight-seater with petrol and hybrid engine options. Hybrid variants have been available since 2003, which incorporates Toyota's Hybrid Synergy ...

, a luxury minivan *

Livingston Energy Flight Livingston S.p.A. was an Italian airline with its head office in Cardano al Campo, Varese and its main base at Milan Malpensa Airport. History The airline was established on 13 January 2003 as a successor of Lauda Air ItalyLoganair Loganair is a Scottish regional airline based at Glasgow Airport near Paisley, Scotland. It is the largest regional airline in the UK by passenger numbers and fleet size. In addition to its main base at Glasgow, it has hubs at Aberdeen, Edinb ...

, a Scottish airline; IATA airline designator code *

London Midland London Midland was a train operating company in England which operated the West Midlands franchise between 11 November 2007 and 10 December 2017. It was owned by the British transport group Govia. London Midland was created as a result of Gov ...

, a rail operator based in the West Midlands, England

Business and finance

IS–LM model IS–LM model, or Hicks–Hansen model, is a two-dimensional macroeconomic tool that shows the relationship between interest rates and assets market (also known as real output in goods and services market plus money market). The intersection of ...

in macroeconomics, where LM refers to Liquidity preference-Money supply * Lean manufacturing *

Maltese lira The lira ( mt, lira Maltija, plural: ''liri'', ISO 4217 code: ''MTL'') or pound (until ca. 1986 in English, code ) was the currency of Malta from 1972 until 31 December 2007. One lira was divided into 100 cents, each of 10 mils. After 1986 th ...

, the former currency of Malta

Organizations

Liberal Movement (Australia) The Liberal Movement (LM) was a South Australian political party which existed from 1973 to 1976, and was a forerunner to the Australian Democrats. The LM was initially organised in 1972 by former premier Steele Hall, as an internal group of ...

, a defunct Australian political party *

Lower Merion High School Lower Merion High School is a public high school in Ardmore, a community in Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs. It is one of two high schools in the Lower Merion School District; the other one is Harriton High School. Lower Merion serves both Lo ...

, a Pennsylvania secondary school

Mathematics, science, and technology

Mathematics and computing

Linear model In statistics, the term linear model is used in different ways according to the context. The most common occurrence is in connection with regression models and the term is often taken as synonymous with linear regression model. However, the term ...

, a type of statistical model *

Lagrange multiplier In mathematical optimization, the method of Lagrange multipliers is a strategy for finding the local maxima and minima of a function subject to equality constraints (i.e., subject to the condition that one or more equations have to be satisfied e ...

, a method for finding maxima and minima subject to constraints *

LAN Manager LAN Manager is a discontinued network operating system (NOS) available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server software which ran atop a h ...

, a Microsoft network operating system * Language model, a mathematical model used in language processing and speech recognition * Lebesgue measure, in measure theory *

Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm In mathematics and computing, the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm (LMA or just LM), also known as the damped least-squares (DLS) method, is used to solve non-linear least squares problems. These minimization problems arise especially in least sq ...

, used to solve non-linear least squares problems * Leading monomial * Linear Monolithic, a

National Semiconductor National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company produced power management integrated circuits, display dr ...

prefix for integrated circuits; see

List of LM-series integrated circuits The following is a list of LM-series integrated circuits. Many were among the first analog integrated circuits commercially produced since late 1965; some were groundbreaking innovations. As of 2007, many are still being used. The LM series orig ...

LM hash LAN Manager is a discontinued network operating system (NOS) available from multiple vendors and developed by Microsoft in cooperation with 3Com Corporation. It was designed to succeed 3Com's 3+Share network server software which ran atop a he ...

, a Microsoft password hash function * Long mode, a CPU mode of operation where 64-bit programs are executed (''lm'' is also set as a CPU flag)

Science and technology

* Apollo Lunar Module spacecraft * Leonard-Merritt mass estimator, a formula for estimating the mass of a spherical stellar system *

Light meter A light meter is a device used to measure the amount of light. In photography, a light meter (more correctly an exposure meter) is used to determine the proper exposure (photography), exposure for a photograph. The meter will include either a Di ...

* Light microscope * Line maintenance, a type of

Aircraft maintenance checks Aircraft maintenance checks are periodic inspections that have to be done on all commercial and civil aircraft after a certain amount of time or usage. Military aircraft normally follow specific maintenance programmes which may, or may not, be sim ...

Listeria monocytogenes ''Listeria monocytogenes'' is the species of pathogenic bacteria that causes the infection listeriosis. It is a facultative anaerobic bacterium, capable of surviving in the presence or absence of oxygen. It can grow and reproduce inside the host ...

Lumen (unit) The lumen (symbol: lm) is the unit of luminous flux, a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source per unit of time, in the International System of Units (SI). Luminous flux differs from power ( radiant flux) in that radi ...

, a unit of luminous flux

Sport

24 Hours of Le Mans The 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is the world's oldest active endurance racing event. Unlike fixed-distance races whose ...

race, and related car models *

Late model A late model car is a car which has been recently designed or manufactured, often the latest model. (An early model car or classic car is a car old enough to be of historical interest; there is no usual intermediate term.) The precise definition ...

, a class of Racing car *

Left midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

, a defensive position in association football

Other uses

* Legion of Merit, a United States military decoration